OYU TOLGOI, Mongolia -- When Robert Friedland got out of prison, he met Steve Jobs. The duo bounced around 1970s India, teamed with Woodstock emcee Wavy Gravy and communed on Friedland's Oregon orchard, credited with inspiring Jobs to name his company Apple Computer.
All that, of course, was before Friedland parlayed an abandoned Oregon gold mine into high-flying Galactic...